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Updated Press Release: Rally and press conference rescheduled for Thursday May 9, 5 pm RALLY, 5;30 pm pres conference at The Chateau in East Cleveland, More than 30 CNN reporters, camera persons in Cleveland, Imperial Women, Federation of Women, Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Inc., other community activists groups to hold press conference, rally on missing women's issues in wake of release from captivity of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight, the rape and murders in Cleveland of Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone, and the Imperial Ave. Murders of 11 Black women by serial killer Anthony Sowell on Thursday, May 9, 2013, Chateau Mansion, in East Cleveland, 13124, Euclid Ave, contact number is 216-659-0473

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Amanda Berry (left) and Gina DeJesus (Editor's Note: The rally is at 5 pm and the press conference is at 5:30 pm , Thursday, May 9 at 5 pm  at The Chateau Mansion in East Cleveland, 13124 Euclid Ave, Contact 216-659-0473 for more information. Women are asked to wear Black to the rally) Michelle Knight Jazmine Trotter, 20, raped and murdered in Cleveland in late March. Her lifeless body was found in an abandoned home on the city's predominantly Black east side.  Christine Malone, 45, raped and murdered in Cleveland in late March. Her body was also found on Cleveland's east side at East 93rd. St and Bessemer Ave. days after Trotter's body was found less than a mile away. Malone has eight children and they say that Cleveland police ignored their missing person's report and allegedly said "call us if you find her." Malone's body was found two days later in a field, her family members said.  Eleven  Black women (shown below) wer

PRESS RELEASE: Shidea Lane, the young Black woman sucker punched and tossed off of a Cleveland RTA bus by since fired bus driver Artis Hughes, to appear at press conference by Imperial Women on outrageous violence against women, Sunday, 5 pm, WERE 1490 AM Radio parking lot, 2510 St. Clair Ave in Cleveland, Lane, her attorney to appear on Art McKoy University Show on WERE at 5:30 pm after press conference, Nov 25 is National End Violence Against Women Day

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Shidea N. Lane, a passenger on a Regional Transit Authority bus in greater Cleveland that RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who was has since been fired, sucker punched to the floor and tossed off the bus on Sept. 18 after an argument between the two ensued.  Former RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched and chokes a young Black RTA passenger Shidea Lane, 25, and tossed her off the bus he was driving. Hughes, 59, was fired from his job last week for violating RTA rules, regulations and policies relative to his attack on Lane. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women and other womens' rights groups will hold a press conference on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 5 pm with Shidea N. Lane, the young Black woman subjected to an uppercut, choked, and thrown from a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus b